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Susan Glaspell

Her complete name is Susan Keating Glaspell, born July 1, 1876, Davenport, Iowa. She died July 27, 1948, Provincetown, Mass. Her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the influential Provincetown Players in 1915.

Glaspell graduated in 1899 from Duke University in Des Moines, Iowa. In college she had published a few short stories in the Youth’s Companion and had worked as college correspondent for a local newspaper, and on graduating she became a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News. In 1901 she returned to her native Davenport to devote herself to writing; her stories, mainly local-colour pieces set in Freeport (Davenport), were soon appearing regularly in such magazines as the Ladies’ Home Journal. The American, and Harper’s.

In 1909 Glaspell published her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered, a romance of little distinction the nonetheless enjoyed some success. After a year in Paris she produced a second novel, The Visioning (1911). In 1912 a collection of previously published stories appeared under the title Lifted Masks. The following year she married Cook, a longtime friend and the literary and radical son of a wealthy Davenport family. They quickly became central figures in the life of Greenwich Village in New York City. In 1915 she published Fidelity, a novel, and together with her husband Suppressed Desires, a satirical one act play on popular Freudianism. These works show a wide stylistic range, from psychological realism to Symbolism and Expressionism.

Glaspell wrote several one act plays for the group Provincetown Players, performances at the Playwright’s Theatre in Greenwich Village. Notably, Trifles in 1916, Close the Book in 1919, A Woman’s Hour in 1918, and Tickless Time in 1919, and four full-length plays, including Bernice also in 1919, Inheritors in 1921, and The Verge in 1921.